Attack Iran .... Again

Seymour Hersh has another piece up about plans to attack Iran. It would be easy to say, so what? The rumors of an attack have been around for quite awhile.

I'm of the opinion that publications done by Hersh and others have been instrumental in actually stopping previous plans for attacks. Hopefully this one will have the same effect.

It's a good read particularly as a backgrounder on the Iran/Iraq/U.S. situation. The short version is that Cheney is now favoring "surgical" bombing strikes on Iraq after portraying the U.S. as a victim of Iranian attacks inside Iraq. Afterall, we wouldn't want a foreign power to be meddling in Iraq, now would we?

Nothing like an escalation of the escalation to keep things boiling in the Middle East eh?